The Pittsburgh Press (September 24, 1944)
Two-term advocate backs Roosevelt
Washington (UP) – (Sept. 23)
Senator Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) said today that Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey has “endorsed all the New Deal except Secretary Ickes, Miss Perkins and President Roosevelt and proving almost as good a New Deal speechmaker as Vice President Henry Wallace.”
Mr. Bailey, who has introduced a bill to limit presidential terms to two, said he would support President Roosevelt for a fourth term because “I am a Democrat,” but that he intended to do what he could to keep Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee, out of the party.
Mr. Bailey said:
It appears Mr. Hillman is trying to control of both the political parties with a view of setting up his own peculiar sort of government.